So we’re about to leave.
We = Me and Tim.
Leave = Go on our cross-country phototour.
I’ll have more details on that further down the post. For now, I will highlight my last couple of days in NC.
The end of my east-coast hiatus consisted of:
1) Working incessantly from the back porch, rarely sleeping.
2) Wandering around New Bern, climbing train tracks into the middle of the Trent River, and accidentally kidnapping a cat.
So about this tour thing. Lots of fun stuff happening.
1) Our tour site is launched. We’ve had almost 2000 views since Thursday. That’s quite nice, considering we haven’t even left yet.
2) We’re leaving tomorrow. Some of the press thinks we’re leaving today, but we had a few more things to take care of, and one last-minute photo shoot before we hit the road.
2) Our official first stop: Baltimore. Home of the Paper Moon Diner and J-Roddy Walston & the Business, two things I love very much. We will be exploring town with some of the Roddy boys, perhaps definitely taking some pictures, and am also lucky enough to be doing a shoot with Colossus, who happens to be touring through town that night. Then off to New York City for night 2.
I also want to let you all know that we currently don’t have the money to get across, but we’re going in hopes that people will be helping us get across, whether it’s by buying ad space, sponsoring a day of tour, or simply donating us $10 for a beer or a sandwich. It will add up. Please people, if you like what we’re doing, help us get across. We really don’t feel like getting stuck in Nebraska.
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Oh, PS – The press is starting to take notice of things… hooray!
Here is 30Threads.com’s blip on us, linking to gogoraleigh.com’s blip on us…. click here.
For more press on us, go to welldonetour.com/press.
2 Comments
Hey, have a great trip, I enjoyed your excellent photographs. You guys should finance you travels with guerilla art shows in each city you reach. Get local artists to meet at impromptu shows in alleys and old buildings, setting up makeshift galleries. We did this in Milwaukee a few years back with a lot of success. It captures local identity and requires just a few posts on local art websites like a week before you arrive, and alert the local news so buyers come. You can sell your photos there.
Good luck!
-Peter
Man, I would have loved to do this. We had so many fun project ideas lined up for the tour, but ended up caught up in so many great sporadic projects (including all of the work with Bowerbirds/Megafaun) that we didn’t have time to do approx. 400 of the things we had planned to do. There are definitely worse problems to have than this though. I can’t wait to start working on building these ideas again for next tour. Any other advice or project/promotion ideas you have to share, please send them my way! xo